Monday's Child

An elderly woman finds a dead body on her way home from the grocery store. She is confused by it's gender. As she waits for 911 to send help, she communes with the imagined spirits of both possible genders of this now lost soul.

  • Arden Teresa Lewis
    Director
    The Women, Theatre West, Hollywood. Trellis&Viine - short film - Los Angeles City College
  • Arden Teresa Lewis
    Writer
    Little Rhonda, play - SOHO, NYC. Theatre GEO, Hollywood. Baby Dreams, play Theatre 1010 NYC , Theatre West, Hollywood. Published in Theatre Anthologies by Heinemann Press
  • Arden Teresa Lewis
    Producer
    Verdigris, the play by Jim Beaver of Deadwood and Supernatural, Theatre West, Hollywood
  • Linda Rand
    Key Cast
  • Andrew Villareal
    Key Cast
  • Emily Mount
    Key Cast
  • Dillon Mount
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 14, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    100 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 1080p
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Arden Teresa Lewis

Arden Teresa Lewis – Director - has worked as a playwright and director in NYC, and in LA. She directed the critically acclaimed Theatre West production of The Women and performed Nancy in Edward Albee’s Seascape, and Archie in Noel Coward’s Waiting in the Wings at Theatre West in LA. She received the Lilian Nesburn Award from the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild for her play, Grandma Good and was a semi-finalist for the Jane Chambers Award with her play, Baby Dreams. Baby Dreams was produced at Theatre Ten Ten in NYC and published in Theatre Communications Guild Magazine. Her play, Little Rhonda, was produced at Theatre Geo and is part of the Audrey Skirbal Kenis Theatre Archives at the Los Angeles Central Library. Her work appears in two anthologies: Scenes For Women By Women and Even More Monologues For Women By Women – Tori Haring Smith/Heinemann Press. She holds a BA in theatre from UCLA. She is a co-produced Jim Beaver’s acclaimed VERDIGRIS at TW in 2015. She has directed several of Garry Michael Kluger’s plays in WESTFEST 2014 and 2015 and is thrilled to be helming A Thorn in the Family Paw for the 2016 TW Writers in Residence Series.

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Director Statement

Translating my theatre ideas, stories and whimsies into film has become the new journey. Like walking into an ancient forest and finding a beam of light full of fairies in the middle of the darkness. Feel incredibly independent with my Canon Rebel and my tripod. The storyboards in my brain are slowly becoming realities.